On 04/18/2009 03:42 AM, Jerry Amundson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM, sean darcy seandarcy2@gmail.com wrote:
On F11 beta:
yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit rpmdb: Thread/process 3935/140267357374192 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig self.conf File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 649, in
<lambda> conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(), File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 239, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 794, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 867, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed
And this didn't fix it: rpm --rebuilddb rpmdb: Thread/process 3935/140267357374192 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
I'll file a bug, but how can I fix this in the meantime?
Reboot? Odd, I know, but I've had to on occasions where updates put libraries in confused states.
It might also work because /etc/rc.sysinit has
"rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* &> /dev/null"
Rahul